Airbus has announced it is developing a hydrogen-powered fuel cell engine -- and that it plans to test it on the largest commercial airplane ever to take to the skies.
"In terms of aerodynamics, the A380 is a very stable aircraft. So the pod attached to the rear fuselage via the stub doesn't pose much of an issue," said Mathias Andriamisaina, head of ZEROe demonstrators and tests at Airbus, in a statement.concept designs for an aircraft utilizing liquid hydrogen fuel and combustion engines, but vice president of Zero-Emission Aircraft Glenn Llewellyn suggested fuel cells alone might be sufficient to power smaller commercial aircraft.
The engine uses fuel cells to convert the hydrogen into electricity, which then powers a propeller."At scale, and if the technology targets were achieved, fuel cell engines may be able to power a 100-passenger aircraft with a range of approximately 1,000 nautical miles,"A model of Airbus' ZEROe Fuel Cell Engine, unveiled at the Airbus Summit 2022 on November 30.
of global CO2 emissions but it faces harder challenges than other sectors in decarbonizing itself, and progress has been slow., they have faced significant obstacles, mainly hydrogen's low energy density compared to kerosene, and the latter's availability and historically low price.Airbus boss Guillaume Faury
warned that this was"a big concern" and it could derail the company's plans to introduce a hydrogen-powered aircraft by 2035. Airbus has previously announced a variety of hydrogen-powered airplane concepts as part of its ZEROe program, including the Blended Wing Body.But hydrogen could become a key asset in commercial aviation even before entirely new aircraft based around it are developed.
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